Abandoning literature for martial arts, starting by unleashing the beauty's bow.

The arrows were as fast as shooting stars.

It looked like it was about to hit Lu Fengnian.

At this moment, Lu Fengnian finally made a move.

Without any visible movement, his body instantly shifted a foot to the right, narrowly avoiding the bamboo arrow that was shot at him.

Still as a virgin, swift as a rabbit!

At the same time, he reached behind his back and gripped the hunting bow tightly in his hand, then nocked an arrow and strung it.

With another whoosh, the bamboo arrow shot out through the air.

The next moment, a piercing scream rang out.

The bamboo arrow pierced the burly man's right shoulder, spurting blood.

Just now, if the burly man hadn't adjusted the angle before shooting the arrow, Lu Fengnian's arrow would have hit his chest.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye.

By the time the villagers of Shangjie Village on the embankment and Mao'er Village below the embankment reacted, the burly man had already thrown his hunting bow to the ground and was screaming in pain while clutching his shoulder.

Down below the embankment, the villagers of Mao'er Village were dumbfounded. The speed at which Lu Fengnian had dodged the arrows was so fast that they could hardly believe it; it was probably no less than that of a leopard in the mountains.

Zhao Tianming and Zhao Tie also looked incredulous, but also somewhat relieved: back then at the Lu family's gate, they chose to retreat instead of confronting Lu Fengnian head-on.

After the villagers on the embankment realized what was happening, they all showed anger. Some immediately went to check on the burly man's injuries, while many others grabbed sickles and hoes and rushed towards Lu Fengnian.

Upon seeing this, the villagers of Mao'er Village below the riverbank immediately sprang into action, rushing towards the riverbank.

A large-scale armed conflict was about to break out.

Lu Fengnian shouted, "Don't move!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he drew his bow repeatedly, and with three swift, sharp sounds, three bamboo arrows shot out and embedded themselves in the riverbank.

They lined up in a row, right in front of the man from Shangjie Village in the gray jacket who was running at the very front.

They were just an inch away from nailing the nail to his instep.

The man in the gray jacket turned pale with fright and stopped in his tracks.

The villagers from Shangjie Village who were following behind him also stopped in their tracks.

Lu Fengnian turned to look at Zhao Dagui, Zhao Tianming, and other villagers from Mao'er Village, and said in a deep voice, "You all stay below the dike and don't come up."

Zhao Dagui and Zhao Tianming exchanged a glance, which stopped the other villagers.

Lu Fengnian turned to look at the villagers of Shangjie Village and said calmly, "I still have more than thirty arrows in my quiver."

"Fifty paces, that's all it takes. Before you charge at me, I can guarantee that each of you will have an arrow stuck in your body."

Upon hearing this, the villagers of Shangjie Village all changed their expressions drastically.

Among them were several men who were clearly hunters, who placed their hands on the bows and arrows on their bodies.

Lu Fengnian took in their reactions and coldly added, "I advise you not to make any rash moves before Yang Kai arrives."

Anyone who dares to shoot an arrow at me again, I will make sure they can never draw a bow again!

At this moment, the burly man who had been shot in the shoulder shouted, "Don't move! Go and call Kai-ge'er!"

As some villagers from Shangjie Village turned around to return to their village, they saw a young man, who looked rather thin, walking briskly towards them from the direction of Shangjie Village.

He had a square face, thick eyebrows, and big eyes, and carried a hunting bow made of old mulberry wood on his shoulder.

"It's Kai-ge!"

"Yang Kai is here!"

……

The villagers of Shangjie Village were overjoyed when they saw the young man, and they exclaimed with delight.

When Zhao Tianming and the others saw Yang Kai, their expressions changed, and they became tense.

Lu Fengnian also turned his gaze to Yang Kai.

A moment later, Yang Kai arrived at the riverbank, squatted down, checked the burly man's injuries, and took out a small paper packet from his body.

He pulled the bamboo arrow from the burly man's shoulder, then poured some pale yellow powder from a small paper packet onto the man's wound.

At the same time, villagers from Shangjie Village gathered around him and told him what had just happened.

Yang Kai stabilized the burly man's injuries, stood up, and looked at Lu Fengnian. "Did you shoot him?"

Lu Fengnian nodded. "I want to see you, but I have to compete with him in archery first."

Yang Kai turned his eyes to the three bamboo arrows lined up on the ground and said softly, "You held back your strength when you shot him with that arrow. Your archery skills are very good."

"You want to see me because you want to have an archery contest?"

Lu Fengnian shook his head. "You were able to defeat Zhao Tianming and his son, so your archery skills are equally impressive."

However, I have no intention of competing with you.

Yang Kai was slightly surprised. "So what do you want to do?"

Lu Fengnian raised his head slightly, "Naturally, it's about resolving this conflict."

Yang Kai frowned slightly. "How do you plan to resolve this?"

Lu Fengnian cleared his throat. "Release the people from our village, and we'll split the river water equally between our two villages."

Upon hearing this, the villagers of Shangjie Village immediately voiced their anger:

"Such arrogance!"

"Why should we just open our mouths and expect people to share the water? What gives us the right?"

"Kai-ge, stop wasting words with him, shoot him with an arrow!"

……

Yang Kai gently raised his hand, and the villagers of Shangjie Village immediately quieted down.

"You're quite interesting."

Yang Kai looked at Lu Fengnian with a slight upturn of his lips, "You heard it too, not a single person in our village agrees with your solution."

Your arrows don't seem powerful enough to force our Shangjie Village to submit.

Lu Feng sighed, "I've said it before, I never intended to subdue you with archery skills, I just wanted to resolve the conflict peacefully."

Yang Kai chuckled coldly, "Is this your way of peace? When your Shangjie Village had the upper hand in the past, you never said you wanted to share the water resources with us."

Lu Fengnian added, "We have never detained any people from your Shangjie Village either."

Yang Kai remained silent, but a man from Shangjie Village mocked, "Zhao Gang challenged Kai-ge to an archery contest, lost but refused to admit defeat, and even led a group to ambush Kai-ge. We didn't kill them, we just detained them. We in Shangjie Village have already been merciful."

Upon hearing this, Lu Fengnian frowned and turned his gaze toward the embankment below.

Zhao Tianming's face turned red, and he quickly lowered his head, not daring to meet Lu Fengnian's gaze.

After a moment's thought, Lu Fengnian said, "Let's put aside the people's affairs for now and talk about the water source."

In the current situation, whether it's your Shangjie Village or our Mao'er Village, everyone is struggling to survive.

Besides this river, every household in your Shangjie Village has an old well, which is barely enough to make ends meet.

In our Mao'er Village, if this river were to disappear, many families' crops would die of thirst, and they would certainly have no way to survive.

"By blocking the river, you've cut off our lifeline in Mao'er Village. That will inevitably lead to a fight to the death, and no one will benefit."